Ascension and the Maid of Orleans
In the universal Church, this is the feast of the Ascension, celebrated forty days after the Resurrection, on which we begin the most ancient...
Canterbury’s Augustine
As providence would have it, on this memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury â the âotherâ Saint Augustine â who evangelized and solidified the...
Western Schism, Redivivus?
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and...
Father Jonathan Morris’ Circuitous Road
I must confess that I had never heard of Father Jonathan Morris â perhaps for the simple reason that I donât watch television -...
Mothers and Saints
If I may be permitted a brief personal note to our Catholic Insight readers to let you all know that my dear mother, Maria...
Bernardine and the Holy Name
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century,...
The Providential Connection Between Popes John and John Paul
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution...
Stand up and Fight, Canada
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there...
Choosing Life and Death
In a tragic parody of Mosesâ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a...
Unity in Life and Liturgy
If youâd like a view into the speciousness and illogicality of the pro-abortion argument, you could do worse than peruse this Wired piece, on...






















